North Korea's Rim Jong-sim has established herself as one of the most successful Olympic weightlifters since the introduction of women's events at Sydney 2000.

At London 2012, she won the gold medal in the 69 kilograms division and she added to that with 75kg success at Rio 2016.

Rim won the total title at the 2019 World Championships in Pattaya in Thailand.

She was also crowned as the Asian Games gold medallist at the 2018 edition in Jakarta and Palembang, and became the Asian Championships winner a year later.